catfight

I haven't been able to stop Maggie from scratching her face so the poor baby looks like she's been in a lot of catfights :( It happens even just after I've clipped her nails - which I don't do enough in the first place, because I'm so afraid of cutting her fingers by accident. When I put mitts on her she just yanks them off or sucks her thumb through the mitts, so that they get all soaked and her hands get really cold. Sigh. There have been a few really bad instances where she's drawn a lot of blood, the one I found this morning was just AWFUL, so I've decided that maybe the mitt issues are the lesser evil. I've actually been too embarrassed to take her out these past few days because it looks so bad and I feel like a terrible mommy. Of course the scratches don't bother her at all and she's still all smiley and giggly even with blood streaming down her nose.

We were going to throw out this old Hello Kitty mylar balloon from Sydney's birthday in December but first we showed it to Maggie and it turned out she was just fascinated by it. Her eyes got so wide and she just started laughing like crazy again watching it bounce around (it was still partially inflated, even after all this time).

I had my longest run in more than 2 years today - 15 miles. And the weather was perfect for it too, sunny and 40's. Yayhoo.